A Tale of Two Colonists
How two people react to a situation can bring about startling changes in their lives. In today’s Academic Minute, the University of Massachusetts at Lowell’s Abby Chandler considers British colonists in the 1700s.
Have you been cheerful lately? In today’s Academic Minute, Timothy Hampton of the University of California, Berkeley, examines this feeling. Hampton is the Aldo Scaglione and Marie M. Burns Distinguished Professor of Comparative Literature and French at UC Berkeley and author of Cheerfulness: A Literary and Cultural History (Zone Books, 2022). A transcript of this podcast can be found here.